Seat Belts - 2014 and people still done user them!

Seat Belts - 2014 and people still done user them!

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andburg

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7,214 posts

168 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-2...

Above article,i find truly shocking that so many people still dont wear a seatbelt.

Obviously education has stopped working, we've had sensor under seats to warn us but i think its time manufacturers did something stronger. I'd like to see it compulsory to have at least the drivers seatbelt fastened before car will start.

thoughts?

V8forweekends

2,481 posts

123 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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andburg said:
Obviously education has stopped working, we've had sensor under seats to warn us but i think its time manufacturers did something stronger. I'd like to see it compulsory to have at least the drivers seatbelt fastened before car will start.

thoughts?
Don't agree (even though I always wear mine) -

Some people are exempt.
Device could be defeated by the determined by leaving belt fastened at all times.
Another expensive piece of electrikery to go wrong and cost me a fortune in parts and labour.

If people are to thick to see the benefits of wearing a belt then let 'em die.

budgie smuggler

5,359 posts

158 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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andburg said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-2...

Above article,i find truly shocking that so many people still dont wear a seatbelt.

Obviously education has stopped working, we've had sensor under seats to warn us but i think its time manufacturers did something stronger. I'd like to see it compulsory to have at least the drivers seatbelt fastened before car will start.

thoughts?
If they don't already wear belts, they're idiots who are not going to.
Even if they put in your safety measure of not being able to start the car, they would fasten the belt round the back of the chair and clip it in. Never underestimate the ingenuity of the simpleton.

boobles

15,241 posts

214 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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I think it's the "it will never happen to me brigade"


I know the importance of wearing one because I crash test stuff.....

AyBee

10,522 posts

201 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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I never wear my belt....






I've got harnesses instead tongue out

357RS

275 posts

156 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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That's odd. In that BBC article there seems to be absolutely no mention of the old "Clunk-Click; every trip" campaign.

I wonder why not? rolleyes

TurboHatchback

4,151 posts

152 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Some people claim they are too fat to wear them, it messes up their clothes or they have authority issues and deliberately don't wear one as a statement of how gangsta/rebel/intellectually challenged they are. Others are just too stupid to work out the potential consequences of not wearing one.

Either way it's Darwinism in action, the only reason to get uptight about it is the amount of my tax money that it costs to mend people or keep them on life support after going head first through a windscreen.

Craigyp79

586 posts

182 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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andburg said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-2...

Above article,i find truly shocking that so many people still dont wear a seatbelt.

Obviously education has stopped working, we've had sensor under seats to warn us but i think its time manufacturers did something stronger. I'd like to see it compulsory to have at least the drivers seatbelt fastened before car will start.

thoughts?
I think if people don't want to wear a seatbelt the only person that will suffer physically is themselves, I don't see why we need yet another nannying device for the idiots in our society.

liner33

10,642 posts

201 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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I dont know if anyone saw this http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/29/justice/tracy-mo...

The comedian Tracy Morgan was seated in the rear of a minibus when it was struck whilst in stationary traffic by a Wallmart truck , one of the passengers died ands TM was seriously injured but Wallmart are claiming that his injuries are his own fault due to not wearing a seatbelt .

V8forweekends

2,481 posts

123 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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liner33 said:
I dont know if anyone saw this http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/29/justice/tracy-mo...

The comedian Tracy Morgan was seated in the rear of a minibus when it was struck whilst in stationary traffic by a Wallmart truck , one of the passengers died ands TM was seriously injured but Wallmart are claiming that his injuries are his own fault due to not wearing a seatbelt .
That was in a foreign country - their laws are different.

zcacogp

11,239 posts

243 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Lots of people around here don't seem to see the need to wear them. And if their car has a warning light with a sensor under the seat, they simply fasten the belt when the seat is empty and then sit on top of it ... if you are a well-cool innit then getting respeck doesn't involve doing what the authorities tell you to do.

V8forweekends said:
If people are to thick to see the benefits of wearing a belt then let 'em die.
I'd happily go along with this, but the cost of giving medical treatment to people injured because they aren't wearing their seatbelts is paid for by all of us - and it's bloody expensive. Let's just say that those who flout the law aren't the types to have private medical insurance.


Oli.

over_the_hill

3,185 posts

245 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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More surprising is the stated fact that 47% (of the estimated 2 Mill.) were not aware that it was an offence.
Isn't this something that should be drilled in as part of driving lessons / test as part of the Highway Code / Traffic Law.

V8forweekends

2,481 posts

123 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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zcacogp said:
Lots of people around here don't seem to see the need to wear them. And if their car has a warning light with a sensor under the seat, they simply fasten the belt when the seat is empty and then sit on top of it ... if you are a well-cool innit then getting respeck doesn't involve doing what the authorities tell you to do.

V8forweekends said:
If people are to thick to see the benefits of wearing a belt then let 'em die.
I'd happily go along with this, but the cost of giving medical treatment to people injured because they aren't wearing their seatbelts is paid for by all of us - and it's bloody expensive. Let's just say that those who flout the law aren't the types to have private medical insurance.


Oli.
The problem with that argument is that you can extend it to almost anything - not just the obvious like smoking, excessive drinking, drugs etc, but driving like a bellend - all can wind up being expensive to the NHS. My answer was in the context of an idea to fit even more nanny nonsense (and ineffective stuff at that) to everyone's cars just because of a few bellends.

V8forweekends

2,481 posts

123 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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over_the_hill said:
More surprising is the stated fact that 47% (of the estimated 2 Mill.) were not aware that it was an offence.
Isn't this something that should be drilled in as part of driving lessons / test as part of the Highway Code / Traffic Law.
There's a huge number of people driving in the UK who have never passed a UK test, for a variety of reasons.

liner33

10,642 posts

201 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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V8forweekends said:
That was in a foreign country - their laws are different.
Its nothing to do with seatbelt law, this is a civil action, Wallmart are being sued by three of the passengers.


robinessex

11,046 posts

180 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Recently, whilst standing in out local high steet waiting for the wife to buy the entire contents of a handbag shop, I spotted a non belt wearer cruising buy. So I did my own survey. Non wearers about 28%. BUT, of this 28%, 80% of them were women. Maybe it's because they driver slower, so they're safer?

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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andburg said:
I'd like to see it compulsory to have at least the drivers seatbelt fastened before car will start.

thoughts?
No, I don't like dumbing down. Let Darwin work..

grumpy52

5,565 posts

165 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Am I correct in thinking that airbags came about because of people not wearing seat belts ?

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Craigyp79 said:
I think if people don't want to wear a seatbelt the only person that will suffer physically is themselves, I don't see why we need yet another nannying device for the idiots in our society.
Because society has a duty of care towards fkwits who are too stupid to make obviously sensible decisions for themselves.

boobles

15,241 posts

214 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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grumpy52 said:
Am I correct in thinking that airbags came about because of people not wearing seat belts ?
No.... An airbag will not save you if you choose not to wear a seat belt.